trick; deception; expertise
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Artifice Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
(n.)
Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
(n.)
Artful or skillful contrivance.
Artful or skillful contrivance.
(n.)
A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA handicraft; a trade; art of making.
artifice
\ar"ti*fice\ (&?;), n. [l. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. f. artifice.]
1. a handicraft; a trade; art of making. [obs.]
2. workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. the material universe.. in the artifice of god, the artifice of the best mechanist.
3. artful or skillful contrivance. his [congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. raik.
4. crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
note: [now the usual meaning.] those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry.
Trickery.
Noun
1. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
(synonym) ruse
(hypernym) maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre
Artifice Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Founded in 2009, Artifice Magazine is a quarterly nonprofit literary magazine based in Chicago, Illinois which showcases fiction, non-fiction and poetry that is "aware of its own artifice." Its founding editor and current editor-in-chief is James Tadd Adcox. The goal of the publication is to trace the postmodern literary movement which originated in the 1960s and is influencing literary work today.
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Artifice Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
A fraud or a cunning device used to accomplish some wrong; usuallyimplies craftiness or deceitfulness.
